[kirby23]

I just spent about 8 frustrating hours failing to accomplish a very basic task with bbpress.

I want my forums & their descriptions grouped grouped by category on the index page. A long jumble of forums on different topics, only ever displayed in “most recently updated” order, or alternatively without displaying the forum descriptions, is totally unusable. I don’t want people to have to hunt through subpages to find which forum is correct to post in for an issue.

I just want an index page that shows ALL the information: Forum titles, Categories, and Descriptions, for all forums, on a page. In some sort of order that isn’t going to leave the users scratching their heads as to where to find what they want. Is that really too advanced to expect bb software to do?

Some sort of organization, on the index page, or at least headings, is really a basic feature of, uh, every single forum I’ve ever seen. Organizing information into sensible sections been a fundamental part of information design since… the printing press? The written word? Hieroglyphics? I don’t know. But bbpress’s index page is an unfriendly, unusable mess, and the only feature you provide for grouping forums makes the situation worse, not better.

I went with a plugin based solution because I didn’t want to sit and code a solution myself. After spending all day on this problem, I am aware that there are complicated, far-over-my-head solutions which may or may not work, telling me I must do things I don’t understand, and which sound to me like they may be wiped out and need to be re-entered every time a theme or plugin is updated.

I can’t put any more time into this simple need. We have multiple users in my group who are going to be able to create new categories and forums, and it needs to _just_work_ , and display an index that makes sense to users, without hours upon hours of troubleshooting and administration.

[DarwinsDream]

forgot to add this, even with all those changes it doesn’t work….

but still a little lol

[DarwinsDream]

k, I switched to twentyeleven theme and disabled all my plugins except bbpress and jwplayer for wordpress. I verified the div of the bbpress content box with firefox inspect element and put extra code in my functions.php to compensate for missed div tag code in the functions.php. here is what i put on top on functions.php as an injected php script within functions.php

<?php

add_action( ‘bbp_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘bbp-reply-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

?>

<?php

/**

* slidingdoor functions and definitions

blah blah blah php blah blah blah

then also a double attack at the end of fuctions.php is here

}

endif;

add_action( ‘bbp_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘bbp-reply-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

—funtions.php ends here–

-I see other plugins intereacting fine with short codes ie [video] in my bbpress forum but not [jwplayer] can i attach this in css ?

-Is there a very messy way to go about this and edit every file in my bbpress plugin folder?

-Am i better off installing bbpress as stand alone instead of plugin?

-I’m I going about creating a media based user interactive site the wrong way when choosing wordpress w/ bbpress?

I’ve literally spent 90% of my time just trying to get what I want to work and edit it so its all tight. This issue is a brick wall and everything is stopped until this issue is resolved. So really am i just going nuts trying to reinvent the wheel?

Thanks guys…..

The fix it for payment offer always stands until its fixed. That goes for everyone not you Jared But feel free lol

[Jared Atchison]

If you are putting it in your theme’s function.php file and it is not working then either the code is wrong or a theme/plugin is doing something wrong.

[DarwinsDream]

Anyone else know exactly where to put this code? I’m using slidingdoor theme. We are willing to pay someone to fix this for my company. I need it done asap!!! I can paypal you the fee. Please contact me at jason@soundhampton.com This is an urgent issue……

[stoeffel-media]

I dont have a widget area on my homepage, ist is a full with page.

[redrudolf]

I hope as soon as possible, its 97% sooo..

[Jared Atchison]

The easiest way will be to use the widget that is included with bbPress.

Just create a new widget area and place it whenever you want it to go on the homepage.

[briggsy326]

Let me try that just now and I will get back to you if it works (or if it doesn’t).

[briggsy326]

Thanks for your response.

At the moment I think I need to create a ‘child theme’ of the bbpress so that any changes will not be affected by a future update – after which, it is time to play with the css. How? I’m not quite sure (yet).

[redrudolf]

Hi!

Dropbox’s forum is quite nice, I am also trying to make a look-alike forum.

You have to play with the css

[briggsy326]

I’m something of a novice when it comes to bbPress, sorry to say. And although I have spent a fair amount of time searching for how to do what I want to achieve I can not find a way that I can follow!

I am using WordPress and have installed the bbpress (version 2.0.2) plugin and I want to alter the layout of it.

I was looking at this link: http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/15/getting-started-with-bbpress/

and currently the layout I see very much looks like this:

http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sm-bbpress-forums.png

but I very much want it to resemble this (not exactly):

http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sm-bbpress-dropbox.png

Sorry if this seems like such an obvious thing to do, but I really am at a loss of where to start.

Thank you kindly in anticipation of any help.

[injua]

This code is a little unsafe. It doesn’t filter out posts in hidden or private forums. Is this possible?

[stoeffel-media]

Hello.

Unfortuantely I couldnt find a plugin for recent posts in bbpress 2.0!

Does somebody have a clou to find one?

I dont need this in a widget, I would like to display it in the homepage content area.

Thx again for your help guys!

[Jared Atchison]

I’ll have to take a look and see why it doesn’t use the media settings.

In the mean time all you need to do is something like

#bbpress-forums iframe,

#bbpress-forums embed {

width: 500px !important;

height: auto !important;

margin: 0 auto; /* if you want it centered */

}

[injua]

bbPress 2.1-r3920.

Really think there should be a role setting or a simple off-on setting to turn off akismet checking for logged in users.

With the current governmental paranoid craziness regarding online privacy. More and more users are turning to proxies or VPN with shared IP. This leads to a lot of ham being caught in the process.

Hope to see it in the future.

In the BBP_Akismet class in bbb-extend-akismet.php there are this function with a do_action call. Do anyone know a quick and simple way to turn it off from here with code in functions.php?

// Spam
if ( 'true' == $post_data['bbp_akismet_result'] ) {

// Let plugins do their thing
do_action( 'bbp_akismet_spam_caught' );

// This is spam
$post_data['post_status'] = bbp_get_spam_status_id();

// We don't want your spam tags here
add_filter( 'bbp_new_reply_pre_set_terms', array( $this, 'filter_post_terms' ), 1, 3 );

// @todo Spam counter?
}

[DarwinsDream]

btw….. thanks for everything bro

[DarwinsDream]

Thanks again man. my functions page does not have the ?> code at the end just the endif; statement so i placed the code in the end of that and still nothing. here is the code I placed with the end of my functions.php page:

// Prints the string, replacing the placeholders.

printf(

$posted_in,

get_the_category_list( ‘, ‘ ),

$tag_list,

get_permalink(),

the_title_attribute( ‘echo=0’ )

);

}

endif;

add_action( ‘bbp_get_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

Is there another page where that php script continues on it seems to not end in functions.php but like I said i’m not the greatest at PHP. I so don’t want to pay to have this thing finished at least if I know that the “allow shortcode” script is in the right place i can see if its a file permissions issue but I dont think it is. What do you think?

[Jarret]

If I knew more about mobile development I’d gladly help but haven’t yet to learn that so I wouldn’t be of much use

[Nicola]

Sorry for another post since I can’t edit above. I got rid of the share plugins that were causing the problem.

Still seeing the buddypress notice though.

[andrea.ressell]

Hi there.

I desperately need threaded discussion and I have installed the plugin for this, but it’s not displaying correctly The reply links for each post are there, but there’s no indentation.

I’m using WordPress 3.3.2 with BuddyPress and the Frisco theme, which is a child theme of BuddyPress Default 1.5.5.

Any suggestions?

[Nicola]

Update:”I was then able to select the new forum page as the forum in buddypress and remove the notice.” – sorry this is wrong.

It was still causing the redirect problem so I had to select the buddypress page as ‘none’.

Which means I’m still getting the notice of “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Discussion Forums”.

[Nicola]

I installed BBpress via Buddypress – site wide forums.

I then set up up the slugs and the forum was working fine. I have a theme that already includes styling in the style.css file so customising colours and such wasn’t a problem. However I wanted to have the ability to add other content to the page which I couldn’t as the forum page didn’t actually exist in my wordpress pages.

I then noticed a message saying “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Discussion Forums”. After I created the page named forum and associate it with the forums, it stops working in the front end when navigating to my site and redirected to the homepage. So within the created Forum page I added this shortcode

[bbp-forum-index]

I was then able to select the new forum page as the forum in buddypress and remove the notice.

The forum is now still located at mysite.com/forum which is great. I prefer this method I want to have the ability to add content to the created forum page as I said above.

But now the forum page seems to have added in the share and twitter plugins and I’ve no idea how to fix this! please help.

http://stylereaction.com/forum

[Lynq]

Yes you can use bbp_has_forums() and pass it some arguments to filter the query. for example something like:

if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'max_num_pages' => 1 ) ) )

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'forums' );

This will filter the loop depending on what arguments you pass bbp_has_forums. I am not too sure on what filter or action you could use that to get that working on all queries.

Default arguments for bbp_has_forums.

// The default forum query for most circumstances

$default = array (

'post_type'      => bbp_get_forum_post_type(),

'post_parent'    => bbp_is_forum_archive() ? 0 : bbp_get_forum_id() ,

'post_status'    => implode( ',', $post_stati ),

'posts_per_page' => get_option( '_bbp_forums_per_page', 50 ),

'orderby'        => 'menu_order',

'order'          => 'ASC'

);

No problem for helping btw, I try to help as much as I can, I may just get in the way sometimes :p

[Jarret]

Running Win7 and checked in latest release versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE and Opera.

The only issue I can see is in IE and Opera as you mentioned and from clicking around it looks like there is just an issue with the ad in your sidebar.

It doesn’t appear to have any clear: right/both; applied to it so it sits to the left of the searchform. I applied

style="clear: right;"

to

<div align="center">

and it fixed the issue in both IE and Opera.